Allroad Fiasco Cont...

[Tom Donohue]

Alex...I think you better add the Allroad to your list at the end of your posts,
with the appropriate parenthetical.  Sorry.

Alexander van Gerbig wrote:

>     Well when the Allroad came back with it's new transmission a month ago
> thing were not all that cheeky with the clutch pedal.  Above 3k rpm it
> vibrated and pulsated.  I figured it was a clutch issue since it varied with
> rpm out of gear and in gear.  The car went back to Inksip in RI and they
> delivered a rental car to mum.  After a few days the service tech calls and
> says it was a driveshaft issue.  They have fixed it and the car is ready to
> come home.  A meeting is planned halfway from home to RI to exchange the
> rental for the Allroad.  The service tech gets an hour down the highway and
> takes it to 80mph, all hell breaks loose, vibration station.  So mum waits
> and waits and waits, but no car.  So she digs out the cell phone and calls
> the service tech on his cell as he is driving it back to the dealership.  He
> explains about the vibration and says it's gotta go back in, he's po'd at
> the service department because he spent half a day driving the car around
> only to find it was vibrating severely above 80mph.
>
>     So it's back waiting for a new center driveshaft.  Mum contacted AoA
> with the service tech on a three way call.  Everything has been noted by the
> tech and mum to AoA, plus she has talked to a friend in RI that is a lawyer.
> The lawyer is looking up lemon law procedures for mum in the case that one
> more thing goes wrong. Ah the van Gerbig car curse...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alexander van Gerbig
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